Asus unveils the ZenFone 5Z in India as a Flipkart exclusive starting at Rs 29,999

Asus has launched its flagship smartphone  **ZenFone 5Z**  in India starting at a price of Rs 29,999. The device has been launched under an exclusive partnership with Flipkart and as such it will be sold only on the e-commerce giant’s website starting from 9 July onwards.  There is also a flat Rs 3,000 off if you purchase using an ICICI debit & credit card. To recall the phone was first announced back in February at MWC 2018. [caption id=“attachment_4657751” align=“alignnone” width=“1024”] Asus ZenFone 5Z.[/caption] Coming first to the specifications, the Asus ZenFone 5Z sports a large, 6.2-inch IPS LCD Full HD+ display with an aspect ratio of 19:9 and notch on the top. The device is globally available in three variants — 6 GB RAM with 64 GB internal storage, a 6 GB RAM with 128 GB storage and the top of the line 8 GB RAM with 256 GB storage. An external SD card can expand the storage to 256 GB. The ZenFone 5Z features a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 SoC, Adreno 630 GPU, and a dual-camera setup. The camera has a 12 MP + 8 MP sensors with f/1.8 and f/2.4 apertures and 1.4-micron pixel size.  Asus also throws in a 3,300 mAh battery into the phone with support for fast charging. [caption id=“attachment_4590421” align=“alignnone” width=“1280”] Asus Zenfone 5Z[/caption] As far as connectivity goes, we get Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Wi-Fi Direct, Bluetooth 5.0, NFC, GPS and a type-C port. The fingerprint scanner is located on the back and the phone runs on Asus’ ZenUI 5.0 built on top of Android Oreo. Quite clearly the device has the recently launched **OnePlus 6** in its crosshairs and enters a smartphone price segment that has been dominated by OnePlus for quite some time. It offers the same flagship level specs that the OnePlus 6 offers and has a price tag that looks to be significantly less than the latter. However, will the ZenFone 5Z outperform the OnePlus 6 is another story entirely. Our detailed review of the device shall shed more light on its competition with the current ‘flagship killer’.